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ACT UP rally urges $ 2.5 billion to fight AIDS
April 19, 2002WASHINGTON – “America must not be a passive onlooker as AIDS turns entire African nations into graveyards.” So said actor Danny Glover, speaking to a “Day of Hope” rally of 1,000 protesters on the west lawn...
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USWA calls for national health care
April 19, 2002PITTSBURGH – With the industrial heartland in a state of collapse, 33 steel companies are in bankruptcy, steelworkers are joining thousands of doctors, nurses, health care workers and grassroots organizations to push universal health care from...
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Community rallies to save steel mill
April 19, 2002LORAIN, Ohio – With a rallying cry of “Let’s Make Steel!” 200 people gathered together in the Lynn Williams Learning Center here. Under the leadership of Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), dozens of steelworkers, public officials, education...
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Lawyer indicted based on secret monitoring
April 19, 2002Lynne Stewart, a New York attorney well known for her feisty defense of controversial criminal suspects, was indicted by the federal government on April 9, along with three other individuals. The indictment charges that the four...
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PWW writer goes to Mideast
April 19, 2002Judith Le Blanc, vice chairwoman of the Communist Party USA and correspondent for the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo, left April 14 for a two-week tour of the Middle East and the Occupied Territories. Le Blanc will...
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